re: win 98, win 2000 & Linux installation
Thursday, August 16, 2001 at 9:21 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Dave
(20 messages posted)
Thank you very much for all of you guys' information. I really appreciate it...
On Thursday, August 16, 2001 at 2:29 pm, Curt R wrote:
>Going in order....
1) Yes, not so long ago I had a triple boot 98/2000/Mandrake
>Linux setup....not problems, no conflicts.
2) Yes it will....here's how I did
>it:
First I installed 98. Then from inside 98 I ran Partition Magic to create
>a 3 GB partition for 2000 and left is as FAT32 (2000 will change it to NTFS on the
>fly for you during the install if you tell it to during the setup) Then I used
Partition
>Magic to create a 5 GB drive for the Linux and I left it as FAT16. From inside
windows
>98 I installed the windows 2000 and changed that partition to NTFS on the fly (you'll
>see the prompt...just read carefully and follow the instructions) After those two
>were installed and stable i then used the utility that came with my Linux to create
>a bootdisk for my windows setup and ran it and installed as per instructions.
3)
>Yes from windows 2000, but, it won't see the Linux partition(s) Windows 98 won't
>see either the windows 2000 (NTFS) partition or the linux partition. Linux won't
>see the NTFS partition but will the windows 98, NOTE: running app's installed in
>win98 from win2000 can be tricky and may require you to install it from both operating
>systems. I don't know of any app's that are made for windows that will run on Linux
>so forget that idea altogether.
4) As I stated before, you can convert your windows
>2000 partition on the fly to NTFS. If you require security on your files and folders
>then definately convert it to NTFS. Don't try to format the partition as NTFS with
>Partition Magic......windows 2000 needs to see it as FAT16 or FAT32 to install and
>it won't see that partition of you preformat it to NTFS.
5) Any hard drive will
>work providing it's IDE (providing the one in your PC is IDE as vs. SCSI....most
>likely it is IDE as I've rarely seen a computer shipped with SCSI unless specifically
>ordered that way) More than likely the IDE cable your original hard drive is plugged
>into has a second plug just waiting for your slave drive to be plugged into it.
>
>
>On Thursday, August 16, 2001 at 10:50 am, david007 wrote:
>
>>My hard drive is a 20G with Win 98se installed. I want to use partition magic
so
>>to install Red Hat Linux on this same hard drive, and then I will buy another hard
>>drive and install windows 2000 on it.
>>
>>My questions are:
>>
>>1).Is this possible? Will there be conflicts?
>>2).Will the machine let me decide which o.s to use when it reboots?
>>3).Can I access old win 98 files/applications when I am working under Win 2000/Linux?
>>4). Some experts before mention win 2000 features best to shown when installed
with
>>NTFat. How do i get it? Should i use partition magic to get this?
>>5). My computer is from Dell, will all the hard drive purchased from the market
>fit
>>for Dell, or I have to purchase from Dell only?
>>
>>Thank you very much for your helps...
>>
>
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